Polls, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy

 Yes, that is the list of the top three things that I do not believe in. They are in order of the least believable to the most believable. 

The biggest piece of "misinformation" mentioned online, on television and on the telephone is the term "polls". If you don't believe that, turn on MSNBC.

There are more polls than there are actual votes that counted for Kameltoe Harris so far this year. I did a poll recently and the results were that 100% of those polled did not believe that Kameltoe could spell "cat" if you spotted her the "c" and the "a". 

Have you ever looked at the size of the sampling in most polls? They tend to poll between 800 and 1400 people. Not counting the last surge of Biden-Harris illegals, there are probably about 350 million people in the United States. No one actually knows because like all other data from the government, it's just a number that they made up. 

Let's be generous and say that they poll 2,000 people. That's an average of forty people per state in the Union. Are you telling me that there are only forty different types of voters in North Carolina? Hell, there are more than forty types of voters within rifle range of my house.

Let me put this into polite terms for you. Pollsters are using an insufficient sampling to get their results. They are taking the data they gather from less than fifty people per state and extrapolating it to claim that they know what a nation of 350 million thinks. Put me down as skeptical!

I am trying to avoid a stroke, so we won't even go into the way that pollsters phrase their questions. Suffice it to say that not everyone gets the question phrased the exact same way.

In a few days I will be 71 years old, I have been a registered voter since I was 18, and I have NEVER been asked to participate in a poll. I am not sure that there is even a pollster with the balls to ask me if I want to participate in a poll. Even over the phone.

So, what good are polls? Polls are not an attempt to show what the public actually thinks. Long ago and far away when we only had males and females, they may have worked. Sampling forty people today is not enough of a sampling to even cover all of the genders that liberals claim there are today. 

No, polls are not used to reflect what people think. The media uses polls to shape public opinion. They use polls to try to shame people into voting for something that they don't believe. They are trying to get the election results they desire by shaming people who don't share those same beliefs. They stop just short of screaming, "How can you believe that? Don't you see what EVERYBODY else thinks?" But on some days, they don't stop short.

All of these polls may influence the room-temperature IQ voters who make up the Democratic Party, but pollsters are fighting above their weight trying to bullshit me into believing in poll results. 

One of the basic steps in making good decision is to ignore the tone and volume of the arguments being made and to just concentrate on the facts. Pollsters aren't putting out any real data. If that doesn't help with a decision, check with the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. Warning: They are both Democrats.